Private Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Services
In between the cloud rhetoric and virtualization hyperbole at this year’s VMworld, I’m starting to see a few significant announcements.
RSA Security made one of these by introducing virtualization intelligence in its Archer compliance suite.
What’s the big deal? IT operations needs standard server configurations to meet compliance ...
Business executives want to know their company has a cloud strategy and they want the assurance that IT is executing against its goals and objectives. This, in turn, is putting added pressure to IT operations, application owners, and developers. Will the cloud deliver on its promises? Will businesses take the ...
Yesterday a bunch of smart people from industry got together with some others from the good, old U.S. Government to try to explain this here “Cloud” thing.
The list of presenters included:
Mr. Scott Charney
Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing
Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Daniel Burton
Senior Vice President, Global Public Policy
Salesforce.com
Mr. Mike Bradshaw
Director, Google Federal
Google Inc.
Mr. ...
The clouds are just that, cloudy. Hard to figure out what anyone is talking about, or why. I’m here to help.
There are big guys like EMC using “Journey to the private cloud….” as their moniker. They can say nothing, because they are big. The problem, as I explained ...
Earlier this week, I moderated a panel about cloud computing success stories at the Cloud Computing Summit. One of the panelists was Chris Kemp, CTO at NASA, who is responsible for the NASA Nebula Cloud Computing project at the NASA Ames facility in the Silicon Valley.
Nebula is ...
Yesterday, I hosted a panel at the Cloud Computing summit focused on cloud security for the federal government. The panel was made up of some smart folks: Alex Hart from VMware, Bob Wambach from EMC, and one of the primary authors of the Cloud Security Alliance guidelines, ...
I'm in Washington co-chairing a Cloud Computing summit along with my colleague Mark Bowker. Thus far, we've covered cloud computing drivers, virtualization, cloud computing governance/compliance, and new skill sets needed for the cloud.
The audience is made up of federal IT workers, for the most part. These folks are under the ...
Jon Oltsik, principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, says: “The security industry is slowly waking up to an emerging market reality: large organisations don't want security point products; they want enterprise security technologies that align with corporate policies and business processes.”
via Cloud risks outweigh benefits | ITWeb.
As many as 17 percent of companies are interested in using virtual desktops provided by an external company, says Mark Bowker, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.
via How Not to Build a Cloud - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership.
Jon Oltsik, ESG Principal Analyst, will be the Conference Program Chair at the Cloud Computing Summit in Washington, DC, on May 3rd and 4th, 2010.
ESG Senior Analyst Mark Bowker will also join him as the Conference Program Co-Chair.
The 2010 Cloud Computing Summit is two days of knowledge sharing on ...
